Can’t believe how thin it is. If you were transported to today from 1986 you’d think there’d been an apocalypse
Not be morbid but whenever I see things like this I think of all the people who died and never got to see the end of it.
That’s barely worth tearing in half, it used to be a trick to be proud of.
It’s the same with the Yellow Pages. Don’t know how to feel about it really.
What am I supposed to stand on to reach the back of the top kitchen shelf now?
*Phone pamphlet.
It’s so frail! My dad used to put a phonebook on my seat so I could reach the table.
The yellow pages used to be something I would fear, now if my grandad threw that at me I wouldn’t even bother dodging
Send a message back in time to 1980. This is the phone book from three years after a deadly pandemic swept the planet.
Let them jump to their own conclusions.
End of an era.
My kids (now quite old) are horrified at the thought of a public phone book. Name, address and phone number for anyone to see? Those are details we don’t give out anymore.
I liked how even the “goodbye, aren’t we great here’s our history” page was covered in naff adverts 😂
It’s like a book of ghost numbers as I imagine many of the names listed don’t even have a plugged in landline phone anymore
I didn’t know they still did them until I got the last one. Haven’t had one in at least 10 years.
Got one a few months back. Went in the recycling, the same as the rest for the last few years.
Wonder how many telephone numbers there were in 1880
Now that I know they’re all out I can start reading the series
Will everyone get one?
R.I.Phonebook
I probably still couldn’t rip it in half with my bare hands.
I could totally rip that in two. I am a 1980’s strongman by all accounts now.
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Can’t believe how thin it is. If you were transported to today from 1986 you’d think there’d been an apocalypse
Not be morbid but whenever I see things like this I think of all the people who died and never got to see the end of it.
That’s barely worth tearing in half, it used to be a trick to be proud of.
It’s the same with the Yellow Pages. Don’t know how to feel about it really.
What am I supposed to stand on to reach the back of the top kitchen shelf now?
*Phone pamphlet.
It’s so frail! My dad used to put a phonebook on my seat so I could reach the table.
The yellow pages used to be something I would fear, now if my grandad threw that at me I wouldn’t even bother dodging
Send a message back in time to 1980. This is the phone book from three years after a deadly pandemic swept the planet.
Let them jump to their own conclusions.
End of an era.
My kids (now quite old) are horrified at the thought of a public phone book. Name, address and phone number for anyone to see? Those are details we don’t give out anymore.
I liked how even the “goodbye, aren’t we great here’s our history” page was covered in naff adverts 😂
It’s like a book of ghost numbers as I imagine many of the names listed don’t even have a plugged in landline phone anymore
I didn’t know they still did them until I got the last one. Haven’t had one in at least 10 years.
Got one a few months back. Went in the recycling, the same as the rest for the last few years.
Wonder how many telephone numbers there were in 1880
Now that I know they’re all out I can start reading the series
Will everyone get one?
R.I.Phonebook
I probably still couldn’t rip it in half with my bare hands.
I could totally rip that in two. I am a 1980’s strongman by all accounts now.